17 Jun 2026
Anthropic asked for regulation. Washington went much further
Anthropic's longstanding push for regulation is coming back to bite it. The artificial intelligence company, now valued at close to $1 trillion, has spent years touting its dedication to safety. But for the second time this year, Anthropic has found itself caught in the Trump administration's crosshairs, this time out of concern for the safety of its newest models.
16 Jun 2026
Alibaba Is Building Qwen-Robot: The Operating System for the Robot Economy
In brief Alibaba unveiled the Qwen-Robot Suite, a trio of AI models designed to handle robot navigation, manipulation, and physics-based world simulation through a unified software stack. The company says its models top multiple robotics benchmarks, using millions of training samples and tens of thousands of hours of open-source robot data. Real-world robot deployment remains years away.
16 Jun 2026
OpenAI Just Started Selling What Your Consulting Business Sells
On May 11, 2026, the open source AI consulting competition for small business advisers was implemented. A new AI consulting business for big firms called OpenAI Deployment Company was established by OpenAI with over $4 Billion in backing . TPG leads the partnership, with Advent, Bain Capital and Brookfield serving as co-lead founding partners. In addition, OpenAI agreed to acquire UK-based AI…
16 Jun 2026
SpaceX Buys Cursor In Largest Startup Acquisition Ever At $60 Billion
SpaceX just executed the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup in history, exercising its option to buy Cursor parent Anysphere for $60 billion in an all-stock deal that pulls a rocket company straight into the center of the AI coding war.
16 Jun 2026
‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services.
16 Jun 2026
Elon's super currency: SpaceX' surging stock paid for the $60 billion Cursor acquisition in just a few hours of trading
SpaceX’s stunning IPO pop has driven Elon Musk’s net worth to astronomical levels. It’s also given him an extraordinary business tool: a supercurrency for mergers and acquisitions.
16 Jun 2026
Meet Qwen-RobotSuite: Three Embodied AI Models for VLA Manipulation, Video World Modeling, and Navigation
The Qwen team has released three embodied AI models, grouped as Qwen-Robot-Suite. The three are Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, and Qwen-RobotNav. Each is built on a Qwen vision-language backbone and targets a different robotics problem.
16 Jun 2026
Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges
REG AD SOFTWARE Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not! Microsoft is facing AI-related issues on multiple fronts. Disgruntled investors have flung a sueball at the company over its Copilot claims, while it is reportedly turning to other cloud vendors to help with AI-induced scalability issues at its coding collaboration tentacle, GitHub.
16 Jun 2026
Should You Buy the Dip in These 2 Beaten-Down Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks?
Key Points Recent mixed earnings sent these companies' shares tumbling. One of them looks attractive at current levels, while the other is more risky. It's becoming increasingly challenging for artificial intelligence (AI) stocks to impress the market. Case in point: on May 20, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, which ended on April 26.…
